Chapter 106: Anger in the crowd

More than 40 officials, large and small, were cut down more than 30 in Tai'an City, and a few petty officials of eight or nine grades were left and fell to their knees tremblingly.

According to the confessions of these guys, the remaining eight or nine petty officials are insignificant, and no one pays attention to them, so they have no chance to embezzle and accept bribes, but they escaped by luck.

Although Liang Jia didn't know what their specific talents were, let them recommend candidates for the temporary acting prefect and several other key positions.

In the end, several candidates were all selected, and the temporary prefect was made up of a person called Mao Dafa who had a positive eight-grade experience from the original prefect's yamen. Tongzhi was appointed by the original Tongzhi governor, a Zhengjiupin official named Huang Feng.

And then there are the key general judgments and post officials, who are also temporarily served by these lucky eight- and nine-grade petty officials.

As for the wardens in each room, if there is a problem, they will either be beheaded or put in prison, and if there is no problem, they will continue to be used, and the prefect's yamen will be able to make do with it anyway.

In the end, Liang Jia selected a few guys who endangered the township and beheaded them, and the others remained the same. After all, they are not even officials, as long as they are not bad themselves, most of the things are done according to orders, and they are not a big evil.

It wasn't until it was dark that Taean City was completely quiet.

In one day, almost all the heads and brains of Tai'an City were killed, and all the homes of the dead officials were raided, and as much as 400,000 taels of silver were seized, not including all kinds of treasures. After the officials finished the search, they began to raid the dozen or so businessmen.

There was a lot of oil and water here, and in the end, more than two million taels of silver were seized, and almost all the warehouses in the backyard of the prefect's yamen were filled with Xiong Dake's silver. Of course, the biggest catch was the mountains of grain in the merchants' granaries.

These profiteers, in addition to the grain transported by Ge Mingxuan, these merchants also have a lot of inventory, but they still keep raising Liang Jia and raising it again, taking the opportunity to make the country rich, damn it to the extreme.

Early the next morning after the beheading, the soup kitchen outside the city was busy.

The victims who had just woken up from hunger suddenly found that today's rice porridge tasted exceptionally fragrant.

When they lined up to look, they couldn't believe their eyes. Today's rice porridge is not the kind that can show the shadow of a person, but it is very thick.

There are also those usually vicious servants who catch fast, today it seems like a different person, with a smile on their faces and a pleasant face, I don't know if they have been influenced by the gods.

After they had eaten a bowl of rice porridge that could fill their stomachs, a group of people came to the city gate and posted a big notice.

Those who read read immediately read the contents of the notice.

After listening to the contents of the notice, the victims outside Taean City immediately let out a heaven-shattering cheer and shout.

The people sent by the emperor cut off the heads of all the dog officials in Tai'an City, and also distributed grain and grain to them, so that they could go home, and after returning home, they would reclaim the land by themselves, and after the reclamation came out, the government would find a way to irrigate, and then the land would belong to them.

There's another one about rewards. If anyone can persuade a rogue to return, he will be rewarded with one tael of silver, two taels of two, and they will be accumulated in turn, and there will be no cap.

The victims fell to their knees under the signs and shouted long live.

Liang Jia, who was standing on the city wall, saw this scene and thought of the evaluation of the Chinese people in his previous life, which was indeed very pertinent. As long as the upper echelons are kind to them, they feel that there is hope in life, and they will still live honestly.

Subsequently, the people of the East Factory began to come to register the number of households, the number of households, the number of households, the location of the family, the original identity, etc., after the registration, they will receive a sign, and the next day they will go to receive grain and grow grain, as well as one or two silver.

Food is distributed according to the number of heads, with an average of 20 catties per person, and there is no distinction between adults and children.

Liang Jia now has sufficient grain, and there are only 30,000 or 40,000 victims outside Tai'an City, 20 catties per person, and no more than 1 million catties of grain at most. And he now has enough food.

A family of five, 100 catties of rice, plus a tael of silver, saved food and use, enough for them to eat for two months, enough to last until the drought ended.

While registering and making a register, money and food were distributed, the disaster relief work in Tai'an City really began.

After receiving money and food for their families to bring back, some of the victims began to think of rewards and ventured to Weixian and Zizhou.

The number of victims outside the city began to decrease, and after a week, the soup kitchens outside the city had begun to be removed, and the victims were clean. Although there are people who have received news from other places, the number is not large, and leaving a soup kitchen is enough to deal with it.

The administration office originally discussed how to deal with the officials of Tai'an, but as soon as it came out, it received the news that Dongchang had killed dozens of officials in Tai'an.

For a time, the government and China were in an uproar, and the ministers in Beijing were going crazy, and almost all the officials in Beijing wrote to impeach Dongchang, and the people in the administration office were also asking to see the emperor.

The impeachment of Dongchang has no authority to deal with it, so it can only be sent to Chongning Palace. But Tang Sai'er seemed to have expected all this, and sent people to keep an eye on it every day, as long as there was an impeachment twist, her people would personally pick it up and send it to the Administration Office, and she would not give the officials of the Administration Office a chance to see the emperor at all.

For the officials of the DPRK and China, Dongchang's behavior really touched their bottom line. If an official can be executed at will by Dongchang without going through the three divisions and without going through the criminal department, then what status and dignity can they have in the future?

If they break the law, they have the laws of the court to punish them, Dongchang is just the emperor's house slave, not the court, let alone the law, they can't do anything like this.

Crowd outrage, real crowd rage!

Officials large and small gathered outside the palace gate every day, asking the emperor to punish the indiscriminate killing of officials in Dongchang, and at the same time abolish this independent institution from the imperial court.

Zheng Yechuan of the Administration Office has had a terrible time these days.

The officials of the Administration Office could not see the emperor, and neither could those people outside. Unable to tell the emperor about his appeal, these people can only look for him. But he couldn't see the emperor, and he didn't know what the situation was.

He couldn't give everyone a satisfactory answer, so he naturally was hated by everyone, secretly scolding him for occupying the pit and not, becoming the emperor's lackey, and so on.

On the third day of the petition of officials in Beijing, the gate of Zheng's mansion was spilled with countless feces. On the fourth day, the small pond in the garden of his house was poisoned, and the fish in it died.

It wasn't until Zheng Yechuan invited Jinyiwei to dispatch that the Zheng Mansion quieted down.

However, inviting Jinyiwei also made Zheng Yechuan completely think that he was on the side of the emperor's doglegs.

Although loyalty to the monarch and patriotism is the duty that scholars should abide by. But since ancient times, civil officials want power, and the emperor also wants power, so naturally there is a struggle. According to the scholars, we can be loyal, but we must have power. We can be faithful to the king, but we are not slaves.

Liang Jia had long expected that his behavior would make waves in Beijing, so he did not let people stop their petitions, performances, impeachments and other behaviors, but just let Tang Sai'er secretly investigate.